Dr. Jack Furby

Machine Learning · Explainable AI · Human-Machine Collaboration

PhD graduate in Computer Science from Cardiff University

About

I’m Jack, a recent PhD graduate in Computer Science from Cardiff University. My research focused on how AI models detect objects in images and how humans interpret their outputs. I’ve published three first-author papers and contributed to multiple collaborative projects. My current interests lie in Explainable AI and exploring ways AI can be used for social good.

Selected Projects

Playing-cards-CBM

Traning methods for Concept Bottleneck Models with a playing cards dataset.

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partially-aware-assistant

Web application to interface with LLMs.

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Bootscout-theme

A WordPress theme for UK based Scout websites.

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PhD Thesis

Interpreting Concept Models for Effective Human-machine Collaboration

Year: 2025

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Publications

The impact of concept explanations and interventions on human-machine collaboration

3rd World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence · 2025

J Furby, D Cunnington, D Braines, A Preece

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Understanding human-machine team communication from an explainable-AI perspective

34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication · 2025

MR Vilamala, J Furby, J de Gortari Briseno, M Srivastava, A Preece, C Fuentes

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Can we Constrain Concept Bottleneck Models to Learn Semantically Meaningful Input Features?

arXiv · 2024

J Furby, D Cunnington, D Braines, A Preece

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